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词条 The Micro User
释义

  1. Acorn Computing

  2. See also

  3. References

  4. External links

{{Infobox magazine
|title = The Micro User
|image_file = The Micro User issue 1.jpg
|image_size = 220px
|image_caption = The Micro User issue 1, cover dated March 1983. A reference sticker of the BBC Micro's display modes was mounted on the cover.
|editor = Derek Meakin
|editor_title = Managing editor
|staff_writer =
|frequency = Monthly
|circulation = 68,328
ABC, January–June 1984
|category = Home computing, information technology, electronics
|company = Database Publications
|publisher =
|firstdate = March 1983
|country = United Kingdom
|based = Stockport, Greater Manchester SK7
|language = English
|website =
|issn = 0265-4040
|finaldate = September 1992
|finalnumber = Vol 10 No 7
}}

The Micro User (titled BBC Micro User in the first three issues) was a British specialist magazine catering to users of the BBC Microcomputer series, Acorn Electron, Acorn Archimedes and, to a limited extent, the Cambridge Z88. It had a comprehensive mix of reviews of games, application software, and the latest Acorn computers; type-in programs (duplicated on a "cover disk" which was available separately), a correspondence page offering help with computer problems, and approachable technical articles on programming and the BBC Micro's internals.

The magazine hosted the long-running Body Building series by Mike Cook, in which each article introduced a small electronics project that could be built and connected to one of the BBC Micro's I/O ports. The project could be ordered in kit form or fully assembled, or the reader could source the parts and design as the articles contained a circuit diagram.

There were regular columns on adventure gaming from two successive contributors under the pseudonyms "Alice through the VDU" and "The Mad Hatter". They reviewed the latest adventure releases for Acorn computers, offered hints to some games and scattered mathematical and logical puzzles in their articles. Another regular columnist, using the pen-name of "Hac-Man" (in reference to Pac-Man) set out cheats and compatibility fixes for popular arcade-style games, in the form of pokes or short type-in programs.

Watford Electronics and Technomatic were prominent advertisers, taking out multi-page spreads in every issue in the mid 1980s. From October 1983 the magazine carried the first four issues of Electron User as a pull-out; this then split off into an independent publication.

Acorn Computing

With the October 1992 issue, the magazine was renamed Acorn Computing.[1]

See also

  • (BBC) Acorn User
  • Archive (magazine)
  • BEEBUG / Risc User
  • Electron User

References

1. ^Acorn Computing, October 1992, pg. 15

External links

  • Unofficial archive of The Micro User magazine
  • The Micro User Cover Scans @ Acorn Electron World
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20080704124311/http://mags.acornpreservation.org/ The Micro User Magazine @ Acorn Preservation Dot Org]
  • The Micro User Magazine @ The Centre for Computing History
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